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Beach replenishment: War on the Jersey Shore
It’s only been 60 years since New Jersey’s first significant beach replenishment project and 23 years since the first one to be federally funded. Yet in that short time, the diverse efforts to prevent erosion and protect beachfront property from damaging storms have sparked numerous lawsuits and an ocean’s worth of controversy.
The latest argument that’s engulfed stakeholders as varied as vacation-homeowners, surfers, and constitutional scholars has nervous shoreline mayors worrying that future beach replenishment efforts will be too expensive to pursue. (Nurin, NJ Spotlight)
